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Mehdi Hasan stated that “a lot of people don’t even realize how bad the situation is” with COVID-19.
1100 deaths a day in the US from Covid-19. The equivalent of four plane crashes a day in the US, killing everyone onboard. And we’ve just accepted it. A lot of people don’t even realize how bad the situation is. The president is golfing this weekend. Again.
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan)
6:10 AM • Jul 25, 2020
A recent Axios/Ipsos poll found that whatever people ‘knew,’ they believed that whatever was publicly stated was inflated.
So maybe Mehdi’s right in a sense that people really don’t realize how bad things are, but we probably ought to call out the motivated reasoning that gets them there.